The Mud of a Century

By Yuka Ishii

Yūka Ishii 's debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.

Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman

contracted to an IT company as a language instructor finds herself caught up in a deluge of flashbacks and memories, reflecting on unspoken words and unlived lives and contemplating the muddy chaos of her own karma.

Told in a magic realist stream-of-consciousness style evocative of the subtle, wry sense of humour found in the traditional Japanese narrative art of 'rakugo', The Mud of a Century explores the interrelated bonds between self and other, Japan and India, past and present, fact and fantasy, and material and spirit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 064890119X
• ISBN13: 9780648901198
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Gazebo Books
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.1"